Lights Out Enterprises™ provides high-end preparation, planning, and production for unique, personalized life celebrations catering to affluent pre-need clients.
We provide compelling, interactive experiences through a combination of products and services including creative strategic thinking to specialized even planning with full video/dvd high-end production value for individuals seeking meaningful pre-need even planning repurposed for marker birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and tributes.
Lights Out Enterprises™ presents a new way to prepare for life celebrations, be it your 50th birthday party, an anniversary, or an honorary tribute or a memorial tribute.
Our vision is to challenge convention and shift America’s perception to honor a life and celebrate the impact we have on each other.
Lights Out™ turns the light on – life celebrations!
The Funeral Planner™ Protagonist Madison Banks came to life in the entrepreneurial comedy novel “The Funeral Planner”. Madison’s other, so to speak is author Lynn Isenberg, who came up with the idea of turning Madison’s novel business idea into reality and in the spirit of Madison, no pun intended, launched Lights Out Enterprises™. The kernel idea for the novel came about when the author experienced a live performance by a singer at her brother’s funeral per his pre-need wishes. The author’s college roommate whispered to her, “Gee, I’m sorry I didn’t bring my boys so they could see that a funeral doesn’t have to be so sad.” And that’s when the author, in an attempt to avoid her own grief, wrote the novel about an ambitious entrepreneurial young woman who brings life to a dead business and in the process learns to live life by confronting her own grief. Lights Out Enterprises™ is a mirror of art following life and life following art.
When people are born, we rejoice, when they marry, we celebrate; yet when they die, we pretend nothing happened.
The famous cultural anthropologist Margaret Meade said about death in America
Well, Lights Out™ is doing something about that. We’ve learned that when you confront the end, the beginning and middle just get better!
Lights Out Enterprises™ designs and produces memorable and compelling celebrations that truly honor the recipient while alive or when the lights go out. Services are offered all together or a la carte:
Experience Design Consultation
This phase consist of interviewing the client (in person or via email and phone) to gain insight into the individual being honored. The Lights Out Enterprise™ think tank creates a concept and an experience design layout and presents that to the client along with a proposed budget for implementation.
Life Bio Video Production
Lights Out Enterprises™ offers award winning high-end video production and post-production services with full motion graphics and animation. Creative storylines are developed and scripted for approval by the client. Through our strategic partner, our clients include the major entertainment companies in Hollywood and Network Television as well as fortune 500 advertisers. In short, your personalized video will be developed and produced by Hollywood’s most creative talent.
Strategic Partners’ Motion Picture & TV Advertising clients and Production Music clients include:
Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Disney, Dreamworks, Miramax, Lions Gate, NBC, Visa, Ford, Budweiser, Lexus, Blockbuster, Sprint, Wells Fargo, MTV, Toyota, Citigroup, Starlight Foundation, Oprah, NFL Football, Motorola, etc…
High-End Talent Relations
Lights Out Enterprises™ has over twenty years of experience working in Hollywood. Our expertise includes relationships with award winning talent, celebrities, musicians, and speakers whole we will arrange to perform and/or appear at the live event of your birthday celebration or tribute. Furthermore, we an include the talent to be integrated into the storyline of your life bio video. Imagine your favorite actor narrating or acting in your Life Bio Video that reflects and honors you.
Customized Branded Merchandise
Lights Out Enterprises™ will coordinate with you on how best to make your celebration an interactive and compelling event by organically integrating customized branded merchandise and promotional products into the experience. Examples include glow-in-the-dark golf balls with customized engraved names, personal branded gourmet coffee warmers and mugs, popcorn bags or colorful handkerchiefs, digital camera used by participants as part of the unfolding event… well, you get the picture, or do we need to turn on a few more lights…
Customized Poems
Lights Out Enterprises™ will create customized poems for any kind of life celebration – birthday, wedding, anniversary, tribute, or memorial, end of life celebration, etc. Our strategic alliance with award winning poets provide creative and personalize poems to meet your needs.
Sample Personalized Birthday Poem written by Angel Clarence II (whose father appeared in “It’s a Wonderful Life”)
Private Estate Mausoleums
We facilitate in the design and overall management of customized private estate mausoleums. For more information, please contact us directly.
Audio & Video Messages for the Future
AV Message for the Future is the way for you to participate in the ongoing life celebrations of your family and friends. Birthday Wishes and Anniversaries can include a message from you so that the gift of your memory continues to enhance the lives of your loved ones.
Real Estate Developer Norm Pearl (1943- )
Genetic Biologist Hector Thornton (1948- )
Sr. Loan Officer Arnie Haggerty (1930-2005)
Playwright Jack Rand * (1923-2004)
Author & Entrepreneur
In addition to writing the comedy novel THE FUNERAL PLANNER and launching the real life business it inspired, LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES, native Detroiter and Californian Lynn Isenberg is a Media Developer; an avant-garde content creator, producer, and narrative marketing strategist. Her critically acclaimed works include two comedic novels as well as feature film and television credits Youngblood, I Love You to Death, True Vinyl, and the popular series I::Design (which she co-created and executive produced). Her work in new media and branded entertainment includes Jill Sobule’s Analog Girl for Paramount Pictures as well as the premiere Sundance Online Film Festival and the upcoming Resolve (which she co-wrote) for The Creative Tank and TaylorMade Golf. In addition, she is founder of the renowned Hollywood Literary Retreat. Lynn speaks at venues across the nation about her novels and the role of storytelling in entertainment and new media. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and NELP with a B.A. in English Language & Literature, a minor in Film Studies, and an MBA & Entrepreneurial Studies audit. Through her company Focus Media, Inc. (Finding Opportunities Creating Unified Success), Isenberg designs and produces cutting edge narrative marketing strategies for select clients.
Visit: lynnisenberg.com and thefuneralplanner.com.
An Interview With Lynn Isenberg
Why did you write THE FUNERAL PLANNER?
My father and brother died a year apart to the day. I had a lot of pain and grief to deal with, and I chose to do so creatively: by writing a book.
What did you learn about grief?
I learned that closure is a misnomer: you don’t get over grief, you just get used to it.
I’m collaborating with renowned funeral director, author, and bereavement specialist David M. Techner (who buried my father and brother) on a guide discussing these issues, which will be sold online this September. It’s called The Pamphlet on Grief Wellness & Personalized Tributes and I’m hoping it can help people by providing another perspective on grief and life celebration.
What are the messages you wish to convey in THE FUNERAL PLANNER?
- To massage a shift in how America mourns.
- To understand that it’s not about getting over grief, it’s about getting used to grief. Grief doesn’t go away. And there’s no such thing as closure.
- To take away the fear around death, and to create open dialogue about it. By talking about death, by confronting it, the fear lessens. And by confronting the end – the beginning and middle just get better. · To diminish intimidation around creating your own business, especially for women.
- To provide a road map on how to go about developing the kernel of an idea into a real business.
How did LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES become a real business?
During my research for THE FUNERAL PLANNER (which included auditing the MBA/Entrepreneurial Studies program at the University of Michigan and immersing myself in funeral industry conventions and seminars), it became clear in talking to friends and business associates that this could be a real business. In fact, members of my Advisory Board encouraged me to launch a real business.
What are your credentials?
I’m a Media Developer – with 20 years of experience in Entertainment Media including Hollywood, Television, Advertising, Publishing, Internet, and Live Events. I’ve worked successfully as a screenwriter, producer, author, speaker, event producer, creating strategic relationships for branded entertainment. Given my background, I can’t help but think in creative mutually beneficial terms.
Who do you think will use the services LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES provides?
People who love life. Those are the people I find are unafraid to confront the end and who understand that Lights Out offers creativity and compassion in capturing the essence, spirit, and fundamental core of an individual to produce an authentic tribute for one’s friends and progeny.
When appropriate, it’s about bringing an element of humor to the table so people can experience an entire realm of emotions associated with a life celebration. The renowned storyteller Donald Davis taught me that tears and laughter are twins, and that we often can’t cry until after we’ve found the humor inside the sorrow. This is what life is all about -laughter and tears.
It’s important to note that Lights Out Enterprises is not about servicing time-of-need clients – but those who are alive and well and want to create a MULTI-PURPOSED experience and life bio video for their friends and family to enjoy in the now and during a life celebration.
Were there any other influences in your life that inspired you to start this business?
My mother is the ultimate experience designer. Every holiday had a theme and a great deal of interactivity. I think interactivity is what solidifies the memory of an event.
It’s the difference between buying a coffee mug or making the mug yourself. It’s the difference between ordering a scoop of ice cream versus a Cold Stone Creamery experience. Although, the better experience would be to let the customers get behind the counter and scrunch the ice cream up themselves. Hmmm, perhaps there’s a business idea there?
So how does your mother feel about LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES?
My mother, a storyteller, believes Lights Out Enterprises provides a serious solution for those of like-mind. For her, life on the whole has been “delightful,” she says, adding, “I want to serve my friends and family a treat – Lights Out Enterprises style. I want to leave a twinkle in their hearts because I was always told I had a twinkle in my eye. And I want to thank them for all the love and nurturing they gave me. So… I want a live Klezmer Band playing at my life celebration and I want everyone to have Rugelah.”
Do your characters represent extensions of yourself?
Ironically, it’s the opposite in this case. Rather than Madison Banks’ character becoming an extension of me, I’m becoming an extension of her. I hope I can do her proud.
Dear Friend,
I’m writing to tell you about a truly unusual company that grew from an idea for a novel into a unique business venture. LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES, subsidiary of Focus Media Inc, stamps out the canned eulogies of the past by creating personalized remembrance ceremonies that celebrate life instead of mourning death. The idea came to author/entrepreneur Lynn Isenberg as she was writing a novel entitled THE FUNERAL PLANNER, a light-hearted work of women’s fiction coming out September 1, 2005 from Red Dress Ink. In researching the book, Isenberg discovered the following:
- Average cost of a funeral = $7,000
- Average cost to cremate = $1,500
- Average number of funerals per funeral home per year = 250
- Average number of funeral homes in the United States = 28,000
- Cremation on the rise by 35%
- The pre-need market – a $28 billion industry and growing as baby boomers age
As she cleverly wove the business plan for Lights Out Enterprises into the novel, including a table of contents that mirrors the anatomy of a business plan, Isenberg realized her “novel-idea” presented an opportunity to turn her fictional business into reality.
- Chapter One: Appendix A: Personnel Profile
- Chapter Two: Missions & Visions: The Genesis of an Entrepreneurial Idea
- Chapter Three: Market Strategy: Lights Out meets the Funeral Industry
- Chapter Four: Executive Summary: The Plan for Lights Out Enterprises
- Chapter Five: Rollout Strategy: Putting Reality to the Test
- Chapter Six: Financial Strategy: The Venture Capitalist Reprise
- Chapter Seven: Operational Strategy: A Power Surge for Lights Out
- Chapter Eight: Competitive Landscape: The Past Reprised – History Repeats Itself
- Chapter Nine: Critical Success Factors: Diving into Grief
- Chapter Ten: Appendix B: Hands-on Experience: The Resurrection of Lights Out
- Chapter Eleven: Risk & Mitigation Action Plan: The Stakes Keep Rising
- Chapter Twelve: Finale: Playing Maddy’s Results–The pi`ece de resis`tance
- Epilogue: Everyone’s Exit Strategy
LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES boasts an impressive Advisory Board comprising the entertainment, funeral, estate planning and private wealth management industries, providing the company with built-in strategic relationships. To that end, LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES offers the following menu of services to create meaningful experiences to remember:
- Interactive Event Planning Consultation
- State of the Art Life Bio Videos
- High-End Talent Relations
- Customized Branded Merchandise
The company officially launched on June 25, 2005 and already boasts a few substantial clients. Lynn Isenberg is also available for speaking engagements and interviews. For further information, please contact Danny Winston at [email protected].
The Book That Launched a Business
Dear Friend,
Avant-garde content creator-media developer Lynn Isenberg’s penchant for blurring the lines between reality and fiction has paid off. Her second entrepreneurial comedy novel, The Funeral Planner, has in fact launched a real life business aptly named Lights Out Enterprises, which launched on June 25th (her late father’s birthday) and has already attracted substantial clients. Reality may be at the root of all fiction, but in this case, fiction has clearly spawned reality.
When her father and brother died a year apart to the day, Lynn Isenberg was understandably grief-stricken. But when an unusual solo performance by a singer at her brother’s funeral prompted her college roommate to comment, “Gee, I wish I’d brought my boys; then they’d know funerals don’t have to be so sad,” the words resonated with Isenberg. She was ultimately inspired to write The Funeral Planner, escaping inside the story while working through her personal grief.
The Funeral Planner, a brisk new novel from Red Dress Ink starring female protagonist Madison Banks, hits the shelves September 1st, 2005. More than simply a hilarious work of women’s literature, The Funeral Planner – a la The Wedding Planner – is an entertaining fictional manual on how to start a business in a 28 billion dollar industry which more and more women are entering . Even the table of contents reflects the anatomy of a business plan.
While researching The Funeral Planner by auditing an entrepreneurial studies program at the University of Michigan, it occurred to Isenberg that Lights Out Enterprises could be more than just a “novel idea.” With the encouragement of her media mentors, she began gathering venture capital and pulling together a notable board of advisors. According to Isenberg, “Lights Out Enterprises caters to baby boomers seeking customized celebratory events and high-end Life Bio Videos for the now and hereafter. We create meaningful experiences to remember.”
In both the novel The Funeral Planner and her business, Lights Out Enterprises, Isenberg challenges convention through America’s perception of bereavement, massaging the traditional mourning of death into a joyous celebration of life.
Ms. Isenberg is available for speaking engagements.
For more information on Lynn Isenberg and Lights Out Enterprises, please visit: lynnisenberg.com or contact Danny Winston at [email protected].
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LYNN ISENBERG BRINGS LIFE TO A DEAD INDUSTRY IN THE COMEDY THE FUNERAL PLANNER
“Funny. Gifted. Intelligent. Lynn Isenberg reminds me of me.” - Alan Zweibel, author, screenwriter & playwright, collaborator with Billy Crystal on “700 Sundays”
Maddy Banks has dreamed of having a successful business since she was a young girl. When other girls were reading fairy tales about princesses, Maddy was begging her parents for a subscription to the Financial Street Journal. She has brilliant ideas and a business degree to back them up, but so far entrepreneurial success has been elusive. Most recently, her old college nemesis, Derek Rogers, has beaten her latest venture to market, leaving Maddy frustrated and out of ideas.
Her professional problems are pushed aside when she gets the heart-breaking news that a good friend has suddenly died. While enduring a canned eulogy delivered by a clergyperson who never knew her friend, Maddy realizes the importance of a personalized ceremony to honor the life lost and comfort the living. Isn’t there a business that fulfills this need?
Looking for a distraction from her grief, Maddy works on a business plan for Lights Out Enterprises! – a company that will create unique and unconventional pre-planned funerals that celebrate life. With the guidance of her entrepreneurial Uncle Sam, she embarks on the journey to turn her ideas into reality.
When Madison gets enough money for the start-up costs from handsome venture capitalist Victor Winston, Lights Out! takes off. Maddy starts flying all over the country to meet the demands of her growing client list. For Maddy, fulfillment has always equaled professional success, something that Lights Out! may finally provide.
Everything comes to a screeching halt when new government legislation (with the suspicious involvement of Derek Rogers) forces Maddy to pull the plug on Lights Out! Devastated by another loss, Maddy retreats to Clark Lake near her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan to figure out what her next move will be-no Financial Street Journal, no business plans, no distractions.
For the first time in years, Maddy forces herself to deal with her personal and professional losses and figure out what she really wants out of life…and in an unexpected grassroots come-back discovers that self-worth caps net-worth any day.
Isenberg’s penchant for blurring the lines between reality and fiction has paid off. The Funeral Planner launched the real life business of Lights Out Enterprises with a notable advisory board of high stakes entertainment professionals as well as a spin-off company called Fashion Therapy, all inspired by the novel. Reality may be at the root of all fiction, but in this case, fiction has clearly spawned reality.
For more information on Lynn Isenberg and Lights Out Enterprises, please visit: lynnisenberg.com and thefuneralplanner.com.
Eternal Image and Lynn Isenberg
An Interview with Lynn Isenberg
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Advisory Board
Avant-garde content creator and branded entertainment marketing strategist best describes Lynn Isenberg whose critically acclaimed work include two comedic novels My Life Uncovered and The Funeral Planner. Among her feature film and television credits are Youngblood, I Love You to Death, True Vinyl, and the popular series I::Design (which she co-created and executive produced). Her work in new media and branded entertainment include Jill Sobule’s Analog Girl for Paramount Pictures as well as the premiere Sundance Online Film Festive and the upcoming Resolve (which she co-wrote) for The Creative Tank and TaylorMade Golf. In addition, she is founder of the renowned and critically acclaimed Hollywood Literary Retreat. Lynn speaks at major venues across the nation about her novels and the roles of storytelling in entertainment, new media, and online marketing. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and NELP with a B.A. in English Language & Literature, a minor in Film Studies, and an MBA & Entrepreneurial Studies audit. Through her company Focus Media, Inc. (Finding Opportunities Creating Unified Success), Isenberg designs and produces cutting edge branded entertainment marketing strategies for selective clients. Her author-screenwriting-producing website in lynnisenberg.com.
Ron Moler is President and founder of a major movie advertising agency Ignition Creative and its sister company, commercial post-production house, Union Editorial. The two companies service major Hollywood entrainment studios and Fortune 500 companies.
Previously, Ron co-founded and served a co-president of Aspect-Ratio, a ground-breaking movie advertising agency. In addition, he has produced and directed several feature films. His producing credits include the hit films “Bachelor Party” starring Tom Hanks for 20th Century Fox; “I Love You To Death” starring Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, and Keanu Reeves for Tri-Star Pictures; “Endless Summer 2,” the sequel to the world-renowned surfing film by Bruce Brown; the television movie “Maui Heat”; and the documentary “Hollywood Goes Back to Story”. His directorial credits include “Local Boys” starring Mark Harmon; and “The Runner” starring John Goodman, Rod Eldard and Courtney Cox.
Chris Fager is an experienced media executive who served from 1988 until April 1999 as a member of the senior management team in Hollywood that created the national television network E! Entertainment Television. An original shareholder of the business, Mr. Fager served on E!’s operating committee throughout his tenure. E! free from its initial launch into a global business valued at more than $1 billion. He was also responsible for the creation and stewardship of E!’s substantial international business, the area to which he devoted himself on a full-time basis from 1996, establishing E! as a first tier exporter of programming among America’s theme networks.
Earlier, from 1988 through 1995, he served as E1’s chief legal officer, overseeing the multitude of business, programming and distribution changes accompanying the network’s growth from fewer than 50 to more than 700 employees. During this same time, E! became a substantial producer of programming, creating as many as 1,200 original hours annually. Mr. Fager also created and oversaw E1’s Human Resources Department.
Mr. Fager currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Business Affairs of TuTv, a joint venture between Univision Communications and Grupo Televisa, the two leading Spanish-Language media companies in the hemisphere,. At TuTv, a start-up venture distributing Mexican thematic channels to American cable and satellite operators, Mr. Fager has broad responsibility for company transactions in all areas and supervises and advertising sales.
Before joining TuTv in 2003, Mr. Fager maintained a consulting practice serving media clients. In addition, he pursued a number of longstanding interests including journalism and the study of oriental rugs. Among other projects, he has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Times Magazine on the subject of oriental carpets. He also designed and continues to present a course for the Architecture and Interior Design Department at the UCLA Extension, entitled “The Art of the Oriental Carpet.”
Prior to join gin E!, Mr. Fager managed a joint venture between the Stanley Kaplan Company, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, and SMH, Inc. to establish a national bar review program. He also served as the legal officer for a public company engaged in the development of independent TV stations. Earlier, he practiced communications and media law in Washington, D.C. for twelve years, first with Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, and later at a boutique firm he co-founded. He has also been an attorney with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow. As an RFK fellow, he was instrumental in the creation and funding of a national student rights advocacy organization.
He is an honors graduate of Colgate University and Boston University School of Law where he was a law review editor. Mr. Fager resides in Los Angeles, with his wife and two children. He has served on the Capital Campaign Committee of St. James’ Episcopal School during the school’s successful fundraising efforts to finance its new building, and as the Treasurer for Hollywood’s Canyon Pre-School. He is an active little league coach.
For over two decades, Adam Taylor has been helping intellectual property companies, organizations and individuals manage and extract value from their copyrights, trademarks and patents. As president of APM, Mr. Taylor continues to reinforce the company’s standing as one of the largest and most diverse collections of original production music available by adding the latest in authentic, urban-contemporary and hard-hitting rock alternative music to APM’s catalog through the addition of new libraries and exclusive recordings from up and coming rappers and rockers.
Prior to taking the helm at APM, Mr. Taylor was president of Taylor/Fox Enterprises, where her partnered with doctors, scientists and inventors to direct market and deliver their unique, patent-protected inventions to consumers. Before that, as founding partner of Goldman/Taylor Entertainment, he developed numerous properties including the television series “Confessions of Crime” for Lifetime Network, and the PBS series “Joseph Campbell – Mythos” hosted by Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon in partnership with the Joseph Campbell Foundation.
Mr. Taylor began his career at Caswell-Massey, the oldest chemists and perfumers in the U.S. established in 1752, where he served a ten-year post as President and CEO.
Andrew M. Katzenstein’s practice focuses on estate, gift, generation-skipping tax planning; income tax of trust planning; and probate and trust administration matters, including resolving disputes between fiduciaries and beneficiaries. He also devotes a significant portion of his practice to charitable organization, tax and post-death administrative matters. Mr. Katzenstein is a Certified Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Law Specialist, as recognized by the State Bar of California. He teaches Estate Tax at UCLA Law School and Estate Planning and Advanced Estate Planning in the Graduate Tax Program at Golden Gate University.
Mr. Katzenstein is a frequent lecturer on a variety of estate planning and tax related topics. He appears annually before the Los Angeles County, Beverly Hills, and California State Bar Associations to speak on a wide range of topics. In addition, he has had the opportunity to participate in the prestigious USC Tax Institute and the USC Probate and Trust Law Conference, and has lectured in Europe, Canada, and across the United States.
Mr. Katzenstein received his B.A. (with high honors) in 1979 and his J.D. degree (cum laude) in 1982 from the University of Michigan. He received his LL.M from the University of San Diego in 1985. Mr. Katzenstein has served on numerous bar committees, including actin as Chair of the Century City Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Section, the Los Angeles County Bar’s Estate and Gift Tax Section, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Probate and Trust Law Section. He is currently an “at large” member of the State Bar of California’s Trusts and Estates Section.
Having published articles in Estate Planning Magazine, Journal of Taxation, and Taxes Magazine, Mr. Katzenstein also was one of the principal contributors to the probate treatise Marshall and Garb on Probate. He has also served as host of KFNX’s weekly radio talk show “Principal of the Matter” which addressed a variety of trust and estate planning topics.
Mr. Katzenstein is admitted to practice in California and New York as well as before the United States Tax Court.
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Talent Team
A graduate of Columbia University, Adam Belanoff has an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. Adam’s credits as a writer include “Start Trek: The Next Generation,” “Wings,” “Murphy Brown,” “Judging Amy” and the Fox series “Partners.” He was also a co-executive producer of “Cosby”, “Titus” and the ABC series, “What About Joan?” starring Joan Cusack. He has written pilots for CBS, NBC and Showtime and his most recent project was the one-hour drama “The Cure” with producer Gale Anne Hurd for CBS and Sony Pictures Television. Co-Executive Producer and Writer of “The Closer” on TNT starring Kyra Sedgwick.
TV Producer and Event Coordinator specializing in one of a kind celebrations for Private and Corporate events in Southern California. Karen was Co Executive Producer of the Hallmark movie “The Note.” “The Note” became the networks third highest-rated and third most-watched original movie premiere in its history. Notable clients for special event production include Mercedes Benz of North America, Pacific Communications Group, Brentwood Magazine and Heal the Bay. Production show involvement included the “Radio City Music Awards 2006”, Talent Coordinator for “The Oscar Pre-Show” 2006, The WB’s “World Music Awards,” Fox Broadcasting’s “America’s Party Live in Las Vegas with host Ryan Seacrest,” “The Special Olympics 2005”. She was a Talent Coordinator for The VIP Premiere of “Cavalia,” the show by the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, “Earth Day Festival 2000” and the Bay Days Festival in Los Angeles.
Bruce Block brings his expertise on the art and craft of Visual Storytelling to Lights Out Enterprises. Bruce is continually sought after by major studios and networks. He is author of “THE VISUAL STORY: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV, & New Media,” and teaches seminars on the structure of visual storytelling at USC, UCLA, AFI, and for major media corporations.
Production credits include:
- Untitled James L. Brooks Films
- Holiday (Sony) starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet
- Christmas With The Kranks (Sony)
- Something’s Gotta Give (Sony) starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton
- What Women Want (Paramount) starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt
- The Parent Trap (Disney)
- Baby Boom (MGM/US)
- Father Of The Bride I and II (Touchstone)
- I Love Trouble (Disney)
- America’s Sweethearts (Sony-Revolution)
Visual/Creative Consultant credits include:
- Irreconcilable Differences (Warner Bros.)
- Bachelor Party (20th Century Fox)
- Johnny Dangerously (20th Century Fox)
- Pretty In Pink (Paramount)
Current Projects
- Producer, Blue Blood with Yari Film Group; Bob Yari and Henry Boger producers.
- Co-producer, Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil, Ed Norton, Naomi Watts star, Bob Yari and Mark Gordon producers.
- Writer, children’s book, The Adventures of Princess Yasmine; the imaginary world of a multicultural child
- Director, Women of India, documentary; classification, History & World Culture; A visual voyage into the multidimensional nature of women and their power in India
Credits
- Director, co-writer, co-producer, Next Stop Eternity; 30 minute film; Seymour Cassel, Cathy Moriarty star; Best short film prize, World Wide Internet Film Festival.
- Vice-president of Persik Production, A Bob Yari film production company, Los Angeles, California. Produced Mind Games in collaboration with MTA for MGM.
- Yasmine Golchan Productions; Live theater producer, director and actor, La Bacture, Francoise Dorin; Les Violins Parfois & Le Chateau En Suede, Francoise Sagan; L’cole des Veuves, Jean Codeau; Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti; Un Beau Salad, Pierre Chenet. All performances at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
- Co-producer, Comedie des Champs Elysees, Paris, France.
Background
Born in Brussels, Belgium. Raised in France and the United States. Reside in Beverly Hills, California. Theater major, USC; Film studies, UCLA. Experienced as a producer, director, actor in film & theater in France and the US.
Chelsea Low is an award winning Producer-Director. Her clients include Oprah, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carey, TaylorMade, and Focus Media, Inc. to name a few. Chelsea Low graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Sciences. Her from career began as a steadicam operator earning a certificate from Academy Award Winning Inventor, Garret Brown. Her steadicam work for film, television, commercials, and music videos include Chronicles of Narnia, Project Greenlight, and numerous projects for HBO, Lifetime, VH1, MTV Networks, ABC, NBC, Porchlight Entertainment, Columbia Tri-Star, Disney, Desperate Housewives, Oprah, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, and much more.
Chelsea’s directorial work includes “Api Morado”, a visual poem selected as a finalist for the She-Dance Film Festival and chosen to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival, a DVD for the Long Beach Grand Prix, Streamsearch.com’s premiers Sundance Online Film Festival, and a compilation of gospel DVDs of Karen Clark-Sheard for Elektra Records. Her current directorial project is a Branded Short Film for TaylorMade Golf Company. Her editorial work includes the heartfelt documentary “Mind Over Matter” produced by George Shapero (Executive Producer of Seinfeld) and Elektra Record’s DVD starring gospel-singing legend Karen Clark Sheard. Chelsea proudly joins the Lights Out Enterprises Talent Team!
Jon Macks has written for Hollywood’s top television programs, including the most prestigious award shows, late night programs, and television specials. Since 1992, he has been a staff writer for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Lacks has written for the Academy Awards since 1997, including hosts Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Whoopee Goldberg and Chris Rock. He was also head writer for the 76th Annual Academy Awards. For the last ten years, Macks has served as writer for the Emmy Awards. He was also a creator and consulting producer for the HBO series K Street. His television credits include ABC’s 50th Anniversary Special, Hollywood Squares, CBS’s 75th Anniversary Special and The Honeymooner’s 50th Anniversary Special. Prior to his work in entertainment, Jon Macks worked as a top political campaign writer. Jon proudly joins the Lights Out Enterprises Talent Team for Life Bio Videos.
President of Rhino Films and Co-Executive Producer of “The Funeral Planner”. Nemeth’s credits include over twenty award winning independent films including “Flow: For the Love of Water,” “Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas,” “The Frankie Lymon Story,” “Plumb Fiction,” “Dogtown & Z Boys,” etc. He is also on the Board of Wheels for Humanity.